“As soon as she would run into the house, she’d sprint right for the couches,” Donna Wolford, Lexi’s mom, told The Dodo.

Wolford began training Lexi to keep off the couch and sit on her bed instead — and Lexi learned pretty quickly that the couch was off-limits. But it wasn’t long before the clever pup came up with a loophole around her mom’s rule.

In dog logic, you’re not lying on the couch if your back paws are still on the ground.

“We have done a pretty good job of breaking her of the couch sprinting, but she still tends to bend the rules,” Wolford said. “If there is someone on the couch, she will sit like that to be with them.”

Now 18 months old, Lexi has gotten so comfortable with her own way of using the couch that she’s even fallen asleep like that. While her big sister, Lucy, isn’t as interested in lying up there, Lexi spends a lot of time resting her front paws on it.